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The islands' endonym Føroyar, as well as its English name Faroe Islands (alt. Faeroe or the Faroes), derive from the Old Norse Færeyjar. [17] [18] [19] The second element oyar ('islands') is a holdover from Old Faroese; sound changes have rendered the word's modern form as oyggjar.
The national language of the Faroe Islands is Faroese. The Faroese language is a Germanic language which is descended from Old Norse. Danish is the official second language. [2] Faroese is similar in grammar to Icelandic and Old Norse, but closer in pronunciation to Norwegian.
Faroese [a] (/ ˌ f ɛər oʊ ˈ iː z, ˌ f ær-/ ⓘ FAIR-oh-EEZ, FARR-; [3] endonym: føroyskt [ˈføːɹɪst]) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of whom 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.
The first known settlers of the Faroe Islands were Gaelic hermits and monks who arrived in the 6th century. [6] The Norse-Gaels started going to the island in the ninth century; they brought Norse culture and language to the islands with them. Little is known about this period, thus giving room for speculation.
The Faroe or Faeroe Islands (/ ˈ f ɛər oʊ / FAIR-oh), or simply the Faroes (Faroese: Føroyar, pronounced [ˈfœɹjaɹ] ⓘ; Danish: Færøerne [ˈfeɐ̯ˌøˀɐnə]), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Vælkomin! The Faroe Islands (Faroese: Føroyar, Danish: Færøerne) are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland. The total area is ...
Norsemen settled the islands around 800 AD, bringing the Old Norse language that evolved into the modern Faroese language.These settlers are not thought to have come directly from Scandinavia, but rather from Norse communities surrounding the Irish Sea, Northern Isles and Western Isles of Scotland, including the Shetland and Orkney islands, and Norse-Gaels.
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom . Until 1975, it was known as Zetland .